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The rally 'round the flag effect, also referred to as the rally 'round the flag syndrome, is a concept used in political science and international relations to explain increased short-run popular support of a country's government or political leaders during periods of international crisis or war. [1]
The government’s decision to engage in military action led to a rally around the flag effect, temporarily boosting public approval as citizens united in a show of patriotism.
The “rally-round-the-flag effect” sparked by the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington and by President George W. Bush's prompt launching of the War on Terrorism cries out for the kind of timely analysis that political scientists sometimes can provide.
Alternatively, we theorize that Putin may have decided to invade Ukraine in February 2022 as an attempt to manufacture a “rally-around-the-flag” effect at home, designed to boost his flagging personal popularity among ordinary Russians.
The "rally-round-the-flag effect" sparked by the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington and by President George W. Bush's prompt launching of the War on Terror-ism cries out for the kind of timely analysis that political scientists some-times can provide. A rally effect is the sudden and substantial increase in pub-
We calculate the rally 'round the flag effect (Mueller, 1970, 1973) for all 41 U.S. foreign policy crises, 1950-1985, identified by the International Crisis Behavior Proj- ect (Wilkenfeld, Brecher, and Moser, 1988).
Ever since Mueller (1970, 1973) introduced the phrase "rally-round-the-flag" to the political science lexicon, it has remained a fixture in the literature on public opinion and foreign policy.
The “rally 'round the flag” effect—a short-term boost in a political leader’s popularity during an interstate political dispute—was first proposed by Mueller (1970) more than half a century ago. However, there is no scholarly consensus on its empirical validity and the circumstances under which the effect becomes most prominent.
In brief, a rally-round-the-flag effect emerges when, in response to a major conflict that entails direct US involvement—specifically, in response to a military operation or security crisis—many citizens who previously opposed a sitting president or were indifferent become supporters (Edwards and Swenson 1997; Groeling and Baum 2008: 1028 ...
Various studies suggest a sharp increase in citizens’ diffuse political support, diagnosing a rally-around-the-flag effect with surging levels of political trust during the first wave of the pandemic (Devine et al. Citation 2021).